Return four-wheel vehicles to MDAs - Transition team directs
The Transition Team in compliance with the
Presidential (Transition) Act, has directed ministers, deputy ministers
and all government appointees who are in possession of official four-wheel vehicles, to
return them to their various ministries, departments and agencies by
Friday, January 4,2013.
All Ministries, Departments and
Agencies have also been directed to submit their handing over notes to
the Chief of Staff by Tuesday, January 1, 2013 for onward transfer to
the Administrator-General.
The directive was issued by the
second working session of the Transition Team, chaired by the Vice
President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, in Accra on Wednesday.
The
deadline has been set to not only ensure a clean wrap up of the work of
the incumbent administration but also to ensure the smooth political
transfer of power to the new administration of President John Mahama, as
required by the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act 845).
This is the first time, under the fourth republic, that the political transfer of power is being regulated by legislation.
Those occupying official bungalows are also reminded that under the
Presidential Transition Act, they have up to three months from the day
of inauguration of the President to vacate their accommodation.